NWSFS: December My Favorite Restaurant

Thursday, December 8th at 7:30 PM - My Favorite Restaurant

Please join NWSFS on Thursday, December 8th, 2011, at 7:30 PM at one of Dick O’Shea’s favorite restaurants: Thai Siam in Seattle.

Menu link: http://thaisiamrestaurant.com/menu.html

Restaurant address and telephone number:

8305 15th Avenue Northwest  Seattle, WA 98117-3604

(206) 784-5465

EMP Nov Events - After Hours

NOVEMBER EVENTS AT EMP INCLUDE AFTER HOURS ALL AGES DANCE PARTY
 
AFTER HOURS: Vampires vs. Werewolves – November 12
Long before Edward vs. Jacob, vampires and werewolves represented two of the most iconic monsters of the silver screen. The moon rises over EMP for After Hours, an all ages dance party designed by teens for teens. An evening of monsters, music, and madness, this killer dance party honors EMP’s new exhibit Can’t Look Away: The Lure of Horror Film. Deadly attire is encouraged, so hit the Halloween clearance aisle and break out your scariest wares.  Additional activities include:
 
• Youth-made horror films from NFFTY
• Photo booth from Youth in Focus
• Flashlight teen tours of Can’t Look Away: The Lure of Horror Film
• Scream booth – play villain or victim as you scream on cue
 
Date: Saturday, November 12, 2011
Time: 7:30 pm - 11:30 pm
Tickets: $7 to EMP Museum members, $10 general admission.
              On sale now at www.brownpapertickets.com.

 
EMP MUSEUM HOURS
Winter Hours: September 6, 2011 – May 24, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
 
CONTACT INFO
325 5th Avenue North, Seattle, WA 98109
206-770-2700, main line
206-770-2702, box office
1-877-EMP-SFM1, toll-free
www.empmuseum.org
 
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Wayward is now OPEN at our new home: 65th & Roosevelt

Posted on behalf of Wayward Coffeehouse:

We’re back!

It’s been a long time and a lot of work, but we are NOW OPEN at our new location at 65th & Roosevelt.

We are open our same hours of Mon-Fri: 630 a - 11 pm and Sat-Sun: 7 am - 11 pm. You can find us at 6417 Roosevelt Way NE #104, which is the southwest corner of the intersection of 65th & Roosevelt in the same building as Ten Thousand Villages.

All our comfy chairs, big tables, sofas and art survived the fire and are now at our new space. The sci-fi posters, Serenity banner, and geeky collectibles are here as well and finding new homes throughout. Even our stuffed frog is back overseeing the register!

We have missed all of you and hope to see you at our new location soon!

We aim to keep flyin’ ... and now we are!

Wayward Coffeehouse, it's better than a plan
NOW OPEN at: 6417 Roosevelt Way NE #104
www.waywardcoffee.com
Twitter: WaywardCoffee
Facebook: Wayward Coffee House

November My Favorite Restaurant - Old Spaghetti Factory

Thursday, November 3rd at 7:30 PM - My Favorite Restaurant
 
Please join NWSFS on Thursday, November 3rd, 2011, at 7:30 PM at one of Bill
Boyde's favorite restaurants: Old Spaghetti Factory in Lynnwood.
 
Menu link: http://www.osf.com/menu/location-menus/lynnwood.htm
 
Restaurant address & telephone number:
Old Spaghetti Factory
2509 196th Street Southwest
Lynnwood, WA
(425) 672-7006

Directions link: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=l&hl=en&q=Old+Spaghetti+Factory&near=Lynnwood,+WA+98036&ie=UTF8&z=12&ll=47.834823,-122.287445&spn=0.106935,0.31929&om=1&iwloc=A
 
Please RSVP to info@nwsfs.org or call the hotline at 425-68-NWSFS. 

Reservations will be confirmed with the restaurant so we will not be able to accept responses later than the evening of Wednesday, November 2rd.

NWSFS Calendar

NWSFS Event Calendar

Please visit www.nwsfs.org for details

• Oct 22nd  – Mad Scientist Social at Mike Ormes’ home.  
• Nov MFR – Join us at one of Bill Boyde’s favorite restaurants, Old Spaghetti Factory in Lynnwood. November 3, @7:30 PM
• Nov 19th – “First Contact” social at Katharine & Alan Bond’s home.
• Dec MFR – Join us at one of one of Dick O’Shea’s favorite restaurants (location & date TBD).
• Dec Social – We have a tentative host for the December social.  Date, location and time will be announced when confirmed.
• Jan 21st  – Social at Rustycon.
• Feb 18th  – Spaghetti Sauce Off at the Brathouse.
• Mar 17th  – PK Dick Award Nominee social at William & Sally’s home.

NWSFS: The 2011 Mad Scientist Social

Saturday - 10/22/2010 – NWSFS Mad Scientist Social

Please join Michael Ormes, Victoria Whitlock and their minions for the October NWSFS Social, beginning at 5 P.M. and ending at 10 P.M (or when they eject the last remaining guest or loan them sleeping space). 14437 NE 11th Place, Bellevue.

This is the Mad Scientist Social, so present your favorite experiments, inventions, gadgets, creations, discoveries and curiosities.
NOTE: Please limit yields and power requirements to something appropriate for a residential area.

Bring your favorite videotapes or DVDs, as there is a separate room for viewing. There will also be a variety of board and card games available, or you can bring your own favorite.

As usual, this is a potluck, so bring your contribution of a main dish (occasionally have enough), side dish (rarely have enough), beverage, munchies (usually have enough), or dessert (often have enough, but then really, who could object to too much dessert).

Based on continued demand (despite limited participation), A Challenge for the build-ahead-of-time crowd has again been included. So, for those who prefer time-to-think, and your-own-choice-of-materials:

Defend against an attack by Lego Minions

Intelligence reports that a group of your Arch-Rival's Lego Minions were late to last year's event and, in an attempt to redeem themselves, are planning to assault you at this year's event. Your challenge is to create an inconspicuous device to foil the attack by incapacitating the minions.

The winner is the device able to incapacitate the most Lego Minions during the attack.


The Fine Print:

• Minions are considered "incapacitated" when they are no longer upright or are contained.
• Your device needs to operate at a range of two meters.
• The device should be concealed on or about your person for a significant portion of the evening. If not actually hidden there should be an adequate cover story as to just why you are carrying around what is obviously an Atomic powered Cattle Rod that is taller than you are.
• Being a social event, the Minions are to be incapacitated while doing minimal damage to them or their environment.
• Intelligence suggests that the Minions have spent some portion of the intervening time being augmented.
• Intelligence will be able to provide some (but not much) warning in which time you may discretely draw and prepare your device.
• In the event of a tie, the attack will be repeated at a greater distance (or shorter if no minions are incapacitated by any device).
• As usual, the sponsors of this event assume no responsibility for damaged egos.
• Innocent-bystanders are responsible for their own defense.

 
We apologize for those Mad Scientists who have been constructing a siege weapon (the copy-and-paste device which failed in the creation of the previous notice has been replaced). If a sufficient number of siege weapons arrive then a contest similar to last year will be held.

A Challenge, in a form similar to previous years, will also be presented for those who desire the satisfaction of solving a problem using limited time and constrained resources. (i.e. you get the details when you arrive).

Logistics: There is plenty of parking on the street. The driveway is a bit steep. The only pets are aquatic, and they are expected to remain in their appropriate habitat. NOTE: If you need test subjects, please make other arrangements. Smoking is acceptable outside only, please. There is a covered breezeway available, with seating, for smokers.


Directions:

From I-405 (both directions – or take the SR520 route):

• Take the NE 8th St exit Eastbound (not the SE 8th St exit). Travel East on NE 8th St towards Crossroads Mall
• Take a Left (North) on 140th St NE (there is a Walgreen's on the corner)
• Take the first Right on NE 14th St, before the Fairweather Building.
• After some large speed bumps, this road will make a 90-degree right turn and become 144th St NE
• Take a Left on NE 11th Place
• This road again takes a 90-degree Right turn
• As you turn, the house is on the inside corner, around the corner. The house is brown, and the drive goes up a small hill, pointed back the way you arrived.

 
From SR520:

• Take the 148th St exit
• Travel South on 148th St NE
• Turn Right (West) on NE 10th to 145th St NE. It looks like a driveway until you are right there.
• Take a Right (North) on 145th St NE
• Continue to 11th. The house will be on the left, with the drive pointed up the hill, in the direction you were going.

From I-90: DON'T try to go partway and then follow the directions from SR520 because there is a left turn that you can't make:

• Take the 148th St exit
• Travel North on 148th St NE
• Go West on NE 8th to 140th St NE
• Take a Right (North) on 140th St NE (there is a Walgreen's on the corner)
• Take the first Right on NE 14th St, before the Fairweather Building
• After some large speed bumps, this road will make a 90-degree right turn and become 144th St NE
• Take a Left on NE 11th Place
• This road again takes a 90-degree Right turn As you turn, the house is on the inside corner, around the corner.
• The house is brown, and the drive goes up a small hill, pointed back the way you arrived.

NWSFS Events - Mark your calendars!

Mark your calendars with these upcoming NWSFS events. 

Visit www.nwsfs.org for information about the exciting Mad Scientist and First Contact challenges. 

Sept 17^th  – Sci–Fi cocktail party social at Barry & Paula Currey’s home. 

Oct  MFR – Join us at one of Shawn & Kat’s favorite restaurants, Mandarin Buffet & Grill (Redmond).  Thursday, October 6^th at 7:30 PM

Oct 22^nd  – Mad Scientist Social at Mike Ormes’ home.  

Nov MFR – Join us at one of Bill Boyde’s favorite restaurants (location & date TBD).

Nov 19^th – “First Contact” social at Katharine & Alan Bond’s home.

Dec MFR – Join us at one of one of Dick O’Shea’s favorite restaurants (location & date TBD).

Dec Social – We have a tentative host for the December social.  Date, location and time will be announced when confirmed.

NWSFS: October MFR - Mandarin Buffet & Grill

Thursday, October 6, 2011, at 7:30 PM - My Favorite Restaurant

Please join NWSFS on Thursday, October 6, 2011, at 7:30 PM at one of Kat & Shawn’s favorite restaurants: Mandarin Buffet & Grill in Redmond.

Mandarin Buffet & Grill

14850 NE 24th St

Redmond

425-885-3888

http://mandarinbuffetgrill.com/

A variety of Chinese dishes, fresh sushi, American favorites, plenty of seafood and a Mongolian Bar where you can choose your favorite ingredients and have them cooked up fresh while you watch.

Across the street from Sears, same parking lot as Safeway

Please RSVP to info@nwsfs.org or the hotline at 425-68-NWSFS. Reservations will be confirmed with the restaurant so we will not be able to accept responses later than the evening of Tuesday, October 4^th.

REMINDER - NWSFS: September Sci - Fi Cocktails Social.

Please join NWSFS for our September Social in the Club Room at home of Paula & Barry Currey on Saturday, September 17th. The social will begin around 7:30 PM and continue until around Midnight, or whenever we get tired.

Address:
146 South 330th Street
Federal Way, WA

This is a Sci-Fi themed Cocktail social – We will provide cocktails inspired by our favorite Science Fiction media.

Food will be potluck style, so bring your favorite Sci-Fi inspired dish, snack, munchie, or dessert.

Logistics:
We will have NWSFS signs posted once you enter the complex to point you in the right direction.
Parking will be available in uncovered spots around the complex.
Wheelchair Accessible.
No pets

Buses:
The local route is available from the Federal Way Transit Center. #903
http://metro.kingcounty.gov/tops/bus/schedules/s903_0_.html
If you bus I would recommend setting up a ride from the Transit Center because the 903 route is limited.

Directions:
From North:
I-5 South to
exit 143 for S 320th St toward Federal Way
Turn right onto S 320th St
Turn left onto WA-99 S
Turn right onto S 336th St
Turn right onto 1st Way S Take the 1st right onto S 333rd St
Follow NWSFS

From South:
I-5 North to
exit 142B to merge onto WA-18 W toward S 348th St
Turn right onto WA-99 N
Turn left onto S 336th St
Turn right onto 1st Way S
Take the 1st right onto S 333rd St
Follow NWSFS signs

Google Map:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=146+South+330th+Street,+Federal+Way,+WA&hl=en&ll=47.306175,-122.333617&spn=0.002521,0.004823&sll=47.30615,-122.332018&sspn=0.002521,0.004823&gl=us&z=18&iwloc=A&start=0

EMP Welcomes Jon Landau to 2012 SFFSFF Jury

EMP Museum Announces Jury Members for the 2012 Science Fiction + Fantasy Short Film Festival

Jon Landau, Simon Cartwright, Paul Constant, Jessica Cope, Dave Goldberg, Ilona Rossman Ho, and Adam Sekuler Among this Year’s Jurors

SEATTLE— EMP Museum announced members of the jury awarding prizes for the seventh-annual 2012 Science Fiction + Fantasy Short Film Festival (SFFSFF).  A hand-selected jury comprised of science fiction professionals in film, television, and literature will award a Grand Prize, Second Place, and Third Place, as well as the Douglas Trumbull Award for Best Special Effects.  SFFSFF viewers will cast their vote to determine the winner of the Audience Favorite Award. In February 2012, SFFSFF will screen 20 short films at Seattle’s historic Cinerama Theater. The late submission deadline is September 15, 2011.

2012 SFFSFF JURY

Simon Cartwright

Simon studied at the Edinburgh College of Art, where he specialized in traditional animation. Since making the stop-motion short film The Astronomer's Sun in 2010, Simon has been focused on developing his writing for screen. Simon also continues to produce visual work which includes storyboarding, concept art, and character design.

Paul Constant

Paul Constant is the books editor for The Stranger, Seattle’s alternative weekly publication. His work has appeared in Newsweek, the UTNE Reader, The Chicago Reader, and The Progressive.

Jessica Cope

Jessica Cope is a stop-motion animator/puppet maker who started her career in the animation industry by co-writing and co-directing a film called The Astronomer's Sun for Channel 4. Since then, she has worked for Mackinnon and Saunders on Tim Burton's Frankenweenie and now works in the Puppet Department at 3 Mills Studios in London where Frankenweenie is being filmed. Jessica also continues to develop her own work through writing and illustration.

Dave Goldberg

Dave Goldberg is an associate professor of Physics at Drexel University, and co-author of A User's Guide to the Universe: Surviving the Perils of Black Holes, Time Paradoxes, and Quantum Uncertainty (Wiley). He also writes a bi-weekly "Ask a Physicist" column for io9.com, and is very interested in the intersection between science and science-fiction. He lives with his wife and daughter in Philadelphia.

Jon Landau

Academy Award ® and two-time Golden Globe ® winning producer Jon Landau holds the unique distinction of having produced the two highest-grossing movies of all-time, Avatar and Titanic. Throughout the early 90s, Landau was Executive Vice President of feature film production at Twentieth Century Fox where he supervised production of all major motion pictures, including the action-packed Die Hard 2, Mrs. Doubtfire, True Lies, Power Rangers, Aliens 3, and Last of the Mohicans. Landau is the 2010 recipient of the University of Southern California’s Mary Pickford Award recognizing alumni contributions to the cinematic arts.

Ilona Rossman Ho

Ilona Rossman Ho is an independent filmmaker and owner of the indie film company Canine Productions, LLC. In 2010 she won an Emmy for her short film Kites Over Washington and was a finalist for the 2010 IFP Spotlight Award. Active in the film community, Ilona is on the Board of Directors for Women in Film Seattle and Reel Grrls. Currently she is in post-production on an art documentary about the 2011 Fremont Solstice parade and pre-production on the short comedy, Outside Experts.

Adam Sekuler

Adam Sekuler is the Program Director at Northwest Film Forum, where he's organized touring programs of retrospectives and premiere feature films throughout North America. His own films have screened at festivals, museums, and galleries throughout the world. His short film Pathe Ballet won a prize at the International Film Festival Rotterdam.

SFFSFF ENTRY DETAILS:

EMP, in partnership with the Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF), encourages the submission of original science fiction and fantasy short films. The festival will accept animated or live-action submissions in science fiction (futuristic stories, space adventure, technological speculation, social experiments, utopia and dystopia), and fantasy (sword and sorcery, folklore, urban fantasy, magic, and mythic adventure). The festival will not accept horror submissions. In order to qualify, submitted films must have been completed after January 2007, and must not exceed fifteen-minutes. 

Deadlines & Fees:  September 15, 2011 (late) $50

Submissions:  All submissions are processed through Without a Box  

                       www.withoutabox.com/login/4608

For additional rules and regulations, visit empmuseum.org/filmfestival.

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About the Science Fiction + Fantasy Short Film Festival

The Science Fiction + Fantasy Short Film Festival encourages an awareness, appreciation, and understanding of the art of science fiction and fantasy cinema, and publicly recognizes the most outstanding short films produced within these genres.

ABOUT EMP | Museum of Music + Sci-Fi + Pop Culture

A non-profit organization dedicated to the exploration of creativity and innovation in music, science fiction, and popular culture, EMP combines interpretative exhibitions with state of the art technology and educational programming to offer visitors of all ages an unparalleled interactive experience.  EMP is housed in a 140,000 square foot building designed by Frank O. Gehry. This spectacular structure has the presence of a monumental sculpture set against the backdrop of the famed Seattle Center.

EMP MUSEUM HOURS

Winter Hours: September 6, 2011 – May 24, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm

CONTACT INFO

325 5th Avenue North, Seattle, WA 98109

206-770-2700, main line

206-770-2702, box office

1-877-EMP-SFM1, toll-free

www.empmuseum.org

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